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Princess Sharon
Synopsis:
In a two-fingered salute to the prejudices of his regal parents, Philip chooses ugly, cumbersome and painfully introverted Sharon as his unlikely fiancee. the castle is in uproar and, as events spiral out of control, extreme measures are called for
Notes:
Original Playwright - Witold Gombrowicz (Princess Ivona)
1st Produced:
Purcell Room, London
10 April 1997
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Genre:
Adaptation
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
TR 17/1997 442
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Seagulls
Synopsis:
portrays a fictionalised version of avant-garde directors Vsevolod Meyerhold's company as they rehearse the Chekhov piece on the day in 1938 when Stalin's police came for him. - Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times
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Scarlet Theatre
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 3 Other: -
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Sisters and Others
Synopsis:
Sisters, the first half of the show features only female characters from the play - Olga, Irina, Masha, Natasha and Anfisa - trapped in a claustrophobic domestic world, forced to repeat over and over again their particular obsessions. Others, presents the four soldiers - Vershinin, Baron Toozenbach, Chebutykin and Soliony - who go through the same hapeless, claustrophobic roundelay of fate, but this time, they do it in reverse chronological order.
Hettie Judah, the Times
Notes:
Based on Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov; text composed by Andrzej Sadowski; devised And presented by Scarlet theatre
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Scarlet Theatre
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Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 6 Other: doubling
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